Western Expansion

3. a method of farming that shifted away from water dependent crops
6. a pioneer who was one of the most famous long hunters
7. this act gave land to farmers
8. late 19th-century spiritual dance preformed by some native people
10. an undeveloped area, that is in the western part of the new country
12. earliest and most popular cattledrive route
13. 300 mile march were Navajo people were forced to walk to New Mexico
14. recently freed slave moved West in hopes of freedom, land, and a better life
15. a long journey that took the cattle to the market

1. a system of messengers on horseback
2. 1862 law that used federal land sales to established farming and mechanical colleges
4. the 1803 land deal that nearly doubled the size of the United States
5. a Great Plains' farmer, who had to break the tough prairie soil
9. An Oglala Sioux chief who ambushed and killed 81 cavalry troops
11. a religious leader of the mormon church, who lead his peoples to Utah